Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Without sequencing we can’t identify cause and effect, grasp the long-term effects of our actions, or create coherent plans for the future.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Job
  • Future
  • Free

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future
  • Present
  • More

• I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Future
  • Never
  • Feet

• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Future
  • Man
  • Dog

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Future
  • Me

• From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • New
  • Storm

• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• The gods behold all righteous actions.

  

  Ovid
  • Gods
  • Actions
  • Righteous

• A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Great
  • Future
  • Political

• When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Live
  • Hope

• I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going to happen in five hours. So I'm not really worried about it. I'm just focused on doing what I can at this moment.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Future
  • Control
  • Moment

• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Future

• The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Change
  • Present

• I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • May
  • Future
  • Feeling

• A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Home
  • Future
  • Poverty

• If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

  

  Anita Borg
  • Great
  • Women
  • Future

• It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • America
  • Future
  • Today

• (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? It is the same told of all. Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle.

  

  James Joyce
  • World

• I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Doubt

• Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Destiny

• Without sequencing we can’t identify cause and effect, grasp the long-term effects of our actions, or create coherent plans for the future.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Future
  • Actions
  • Grasp